38 Week Appointment

I'm now dilated to 3 and 75% effaced. Still making progress...albeit little by little every week. So I've decided on an elective induction. The baby's birthdate will be Thur. Aug. 4th (if not before then). Although based on how favorable or "ripe" my cervix was when she checked me, she said she would be surprised if I made it to be induced. Although I'm still planning on going to work tonight and tomorrow:) I'm due the 7th which is a Monday but I really can't take being pregnant for a second longer than I have to and I don't want to waste any of my maternity leave sitting around waiting for the baby to come. I'm so excited to meet the newest member of our family and see what she looks! The girls will be going to my sister Nikki's house all day and staying the night while I'm being induced. She is having my niece Mercedes's 10th birthday slumber party this night and so the girls are going to go to the party. We will play it by ear, but I assume that if I have the baby during the day or in the early evening, Aaron will go pick up the girls so they can spend some time up at the hospital with their new sister. Then he will probably take them back to the pary. We have decided that he doesn't need to stay the night up at the hospital with me. The girls need him and he will be there for the majority of the day anyways and can't really do much at night anyways since I will be breastfeeding... and since I know that this is going to to be a learning curve for me I'm okay with having those night time hours alone with the baby to work on this skill. God knows we both will need to learn how to do this:)